The people behind ARCS∙ai.
⦿ Members of ARCS∙ai from visiting to local Fellows,
⦿ The circle of Advisors and Patrons,
⦿ a Council that is an executive committee of the Armenian Society of Fellows,
⦿ an Executive Board of the ARCS∙ai Foundation in Armenia, and
⦿ Committees that oversee the various aspects of the center's operations.
Affiliated scholars for 2026-27
Visiting and resident scholars teaching in the current academic cycle.

Karen Egiazarian (Eguiazarian) (Fellow of IEEE’18) received the M.Sc. degree in mathematics from Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia (1981), the Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics from Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia (1986), and the Doctor of Technology degree from the Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Tampere, Finland (1994). He is a Professor with the Signal Processing Department, Tampere University, Tampere, leading the Computational Imaging Group, and a Docent with the Department of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. His main research interests are in the fields of computational imaging, compressed sensing, efficient signal-processing algorithms, image/video restoration, and image compression. He has published over 800 refereed journal articles and conference papers, books, and patents in these fields. He has served as an Associate Editor in major journals in the field of his expertise, including the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Electronic Imaging (SPIE). Prof. Egiazarian is a member of the DSP Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

Assistant Professor at the American University of Armenia, Junior Fellow at ARCS∙ai

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I am a graduate student at the French aerospace lab, ONERA, and at the Toulouse Institute of Mathematics. My research interests are Fluid-Structure Interaction, surrogate modelling and uncertainty quantification.

Sevak Mkrtchyan is currently an Associate professor at the University of Rochester. Prior to holding this position he has held post-doctoral positions at Rice University, Carnegie-Mellon University and at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) at Berkeley, CA.
Sevak Mkrtchyan obtained his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Nikolai Reshetikhin.


Advisors & Patrons.
Key experts that guide the operations and make our work possible.


The Council
The Council on Sciences & Technologies sets the long-term vision and direction of the center, drawing on leading scientists and technologists from Armenia and the diaspora.















Executive Board
The Executive Board leads strategy and day-to-day operations of the center.









Committees
The Physical AI Committee (PAIC) oversees the center's flagship program and operations. The committee can be reached at paic@arcs-ai.am.













